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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __refrigerator() && saved task->state
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:14:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131113191449.GF16796@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131113191143.GA24005@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 08:11:43PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> At first glance it would be better to simply kill this logic? If
> it was called with ->state != 0, the caller is going to schedule()
> and it probably executes the wait_event-like code, in this case
> it would me more safe to pretend the task got a spurious wakeup?

Note that in general the kernel cannot deal with spurious wakeups :/

Most proper locks and wait primitives can, but there's enough open-coded
crap out there that can not.

I tried..

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-13 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-12 13:53 [PATCH] ipvs: Remove unused variable ret from sync_thread_master() Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-11-12 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 14:21   ` David Laight
2013-11-12 14:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 14:38       ` David Laight
2013-11-12 16:26       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-12 14:52     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 16:21       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-12 16:56         ` oom-kill && frozen() Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13  3:20           ` Tejun Heo
2013-11-13 17:07             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13 17:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-13 18:15                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13 19:11               ` __refrigerator() && saved task->state Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13 19:14                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-11-13 19:40                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-12 17:00         ` [PATCH] ipvs: Remove unused variable ret from sync_thread_master() Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 18:04           ` Oleg Nesterov

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